Originally Posted by roachboy

i don't think there is necessarily a subtext to that, otto. i think it's basically correct--it makes no sense to underestimate either palin, or the conservatives--and especially not the political machinery that the right has built. it's just a stupid way to play a game--underestimating your opponent is a sure way to loose.

thing is that i am not sure who the message is really directed at---i don't see any evidence from obama or biden--going by what they say that i've read--that indicates any such underestimation. i do think that the campaign has allowed itself to get sucked into the republican strategic terrain, or at least they had been allowing themselves to get pulled into it until this week.

i think it's clearly true that alot of folk who write blogs underestimate palin, underestimate the right...but they just write blogs.

at the moment, though, in this campaign universe, things seem in flux, as they are everywhere else (even amongst the red sox, from what i understand)....i see mc-cain trying to "get in front" of the financial catastrophe at the expense of being able to be even a little consistent, and obama being a bit more circumspect---but when i watch the nitwits on television who run these idiot "political" shows, they seem to think that being circumspect (waiting to talk much until it becomes a bit clear what's happening, so that what you say can be coherent) is a Problem. so who knows?